Zayed Sustainability Prize (from the founding father of Dubai)

Propose and develop your student-led project for sustainability.

Apply to the Zayed Prize for up to $100k to make your project a reality.

One school in South-East Asia is guaranteed to win! Let's make sure it's ISHCMC that wins! The winner will get a free flight and accommodation to Abu Dhabi, and free access to COP28, the biggest Sustainability event in the world which is visited by presidents and celebrities.

If you win the Prize, you will go into ISHCMC legend, as any organisation can only win once in its lifetime.

Complete this form to apply and check this presentation. 

Visit the Zayed Sustainability Award website for more info.

The Breakthrough Junior Challenge is an international award. It is backed by The Khan Academy and other institutions. It is open to individual students only, and groups can not enter.

The Award is free to enter. 

Choose your own innovation:

• Physics

• Mathematics

• Life Sciences

Anticipated announcements will be around 01-April 2023.

• Website. 

• Timeline.

• The Challenge.

Derek Havelock will provide support to all students who are interested in applying for this challenge. 

Support is given on Thursdays and Fridays, at 3.20pm in room 504.

The BIM Factory.

https://www.the-bimfactory.com/unreal-engine-courses 

BIM are training ISHCMC students for FREE.

This is an incredible opportunity to learn a professional skill with the only authorised Unreal Engine trainers in Vietnam. No other school has this opportunity!

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/learn-unreal-engine-5-fast-with-these-new-courses.

Location: ISHCMC (Room 504).

Day: Saturdays.

Time: 09.00 - 11.00.

Start: 25-March, 2023

Duration: 10 sessions. 

Area 320 Incubator

This initiative is run by Derek Havelock. Students aged 13-18 are welcome to join.

The Incubator is free to enter. 

The ISHCMC incubator will meet in room 504 every Friday, from 3.20 - 4.30pm.  Students are welcome to bring any project of innovation or entrepreneurship.  Projects can be science, digital, mathematical or any other subject. 

There are a small number of mentors in the school who will be occasionally available to support your ideas. 

ISHCMC Incubator aims to help you develop your project so that you can prepare it for market, for a Kickstarter, for an international award, or so that you can sell it as a design or idea.  Or perhaps you just want to chill and enjoy your project. 

Instructables run 1 or more light weight contests every month. 

This prize is free to enter.

Prizes range between $100 - $1000. Every prize is given as an Amazon Voucher. 

Participants must carry out the challenge that Instructables release. The challenge is to create something (it's different every month) and to show readers how to do the challenge.

More information here: https://www.instructables.com/contest/ 

Students are welcome to use the Area 320 Incubator every Thursday and Friday. Please be aware that every Thursday specific training is being given on a variety of topics. If you don't want to participate in the training, then that's fine, but you must not disturb those who are there for the training.

The Keeling Curve Prize.

The prize is free to enter.

You can visit the Keeling Curve Prize at The Global Warming Mitigation Project. 

The Keeling Curve Prize is looking for projects with a proven track record of taking greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. They have developed five categories, each one addressing a specific sector of climate innovation.

Two prizes are awarded in each category. Each prize is $25k. There are 5 categories:

1. Carbon sinks, 

2. Energy, 

3. Finance, 

4. Social & cultural pathways, 

5. Transport & mobility.

Note: your project must be ready for immediate activation in order to be successful.

Interested students are encouraged to use Area 320 Incubator to prepare for the next Keeling Prize in 2023, as there is substantial preparation to do to get ready for this prize.

The Keeling Curve prize is planning to increase the size of the awards in 2023. The prize for 2022 projects is presently $25k. 

The Earth Prize is an international prize for teenage students, 13-18 years of age, to drive change towards sustainability. 

You must register at: https://www.theearthprize.org/registration 

Register your teacher as "Derek Havelock" Email: derekhavelock@ishcmc.edu.vn. You can choose other mentors in school at a later date. 

The top 50 finalists are given international recognition by The Earth Prize.

The winner will receive $50k.

The Award is free to enter.